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Wow, what an interesting day. So…Evah Fan and Brendan Monroe are in New York for their “Bed and Breakfast’ show @ Little Cakes Gallery (from June 6th thru the 29th, 2008). Their pieces are consistent with their styles: Evah with her small, often times humorous paintings and sculptures and Brendan continuing to feed his penchant for the earth-y. Hmm…earth-y… that’s accurate right? I mean, he paints a lot of soil and earth texture so I don’t know how else to describe that. The works are neither about beds nor breakfast but rather what you do after, GARDENING –not me though, I don’t garden, but maybe you (yes, you, I see you, I’m looking at you right now). The show includes individual works as well as collaborations, which Brendan explained isn’t something they do very often. As artists, they’re definitely extremely nice with their sassy plastic rimmed glasses and their friendly positive-attitudes, a result of living in the year-round sunny California. But watch out! They both curse like sailors at a cursing contest and they’re both tied cause they both curse so much. Okay, just kidding –but not really. So if you see them, say hello!
You should definitely visit Little Cakes Gallery and steal their idea of converting your apartment into a gallery. I found that to be interesting. On the one hand you’ve got small gallery space and on the other you’re standing in Hana and Dave’s apartment, probably their living room. Go, now.
Austin English just released his 2nd issue of Windy Corner magazine @ Desert Island comic book store, in the BK (that’s Brooklyn). This is his heart and guts spilled out onto paper form so pick it up now. He recently got himself a pair of aviator glasses and he’s now a circa 1980s pornstar –less the body hair. If you see him, slap him some five. He’s from California too but he’s more a New York war veteran after having gone through the drudgery and complacency of urban ennui. Ooh, I just talked fancy.
More pictures after the link (below)
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the journal
168 North 1st Street Brooklyn NY 11211
Thursday June 12 6-9pm
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Alright, I thought this video was amusing. Let me see here, it’s a video of the art show at Giant Robot New York. APAK flew from Oregon to be at the show and oh boy it was wonderful. You get a nice 360 view of the gallery, some detailed up-close shots of some of the pieces, a few words from Aaron Piland (half of APAK), some footage of Ayumi (the other half of APAK), a glimpse of the Dance Parade that was going on near the gallery at Tompkins Square Park, Cheryl typing, Christina and about a minute and a half of my subway ride home at around 4 AM without any lights. This video would be amusing if watched under the influence (i.e. alcohol, drugs, etc.).
This is an animated gif of Cheryl from GRNY, drinking. She drinks (booze) every 4 seconds, like the real Cheryl -sigh.
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Crowd outside before going in
Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski
Packed theater
Deathbowl to Downtown
I thought the documentary was interesting. Its discussion spans between 1970s – 1990s and begins with a little introduction of skateboarding from its Californian roots. The emphasis is on how New York is an anti-skateboarding city but the skateboarders adapted to the surroundings during NY’s economic ups and downs. There are a lot of skateboarding videos, cameos by well known artists, skateboarders, the original Zoo York team, SHUT Skateboarding company during the 90’s, there’s a New York City map by artist Neckface, voice over by Chloe Sevigny, the development of NY’s prevalence for freestyling, the saturation of skateboarding in culture, tv, commercials, etc. The documentary took between 2-3 years to complete but personally I don’t think you can tell. I have never skateboarded in my life but I thought it was interesting.
Neckface
I like his work. The pulling up of the jacket to the face is instinctual. I think he was being courteous because he had a cold, and he didn’t want to pass it on to me. He’s just a nice guy, what can I say?
Mountain Dew Sponsored After-Party @ Waterfront
Yo I’m on the internets Aron Downtown Don
There was a skate ramp @ Waterfront
The meat in the burgers tasted like tuna
Skateboarding
DJ Paul Sevigny, in relation to Chloe Sevigny? Maybe?
Tonight was just the beginning. Photographic History of Skateboarding in New York City Reception on May 9th, 2008 @ Etnies Showroom 29 Greene St., NYC, NY. PUBLIC VIEWING starts Saturday May 10th 12-6PM. Visit their site.
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This is Wall Street Journal front page news. A small Kansas-based video production company Flagler Productions has a 30 year video archive of Wal-Mart Executives, sometimes during “unguarded” moments. Flagler was hired during the 70s based on a handshake and since then Walmart accounted for 90% of their revenue until 2006, when Wal-Mart decided to stop using Flagler. Now Flagler is offering up their archive to anyone willing to pay ($250/hr for video research and other fees for copies of clips on DVD). Flagler even offered Wal-Mart to buy all the footage for several million dollars but Wal-Mart made a counter offer of $500,000 b/c they did not think the footage had any value outside Wal-Mart’s circle.
Well, it turns out there are tons of people looking to sue Wal-Mart who are interested in the footage and according to the WSJ article, if you have keywords (i.e. board room meeting discussing the lack of women executives) Flagler can find something for you. This is pretty crazy. If you read the comments from the World Street Journal blog, below, you’ll find proponents for both sides saying that Wal-Mart should have been smarter about contracting a third-party or Wal-Mart should pay what would be considered a very small sum for them versus comments labeling Flagler Productions’ new business as extortion.
Pretty interesting stuff, Flagler has since created a Youtube account last month:
Flagler’s Youtube Channel
World Street Journal Blog – Read the comments (they’re great)
Original World Street Journal article
Anyway, for anyone who wants some real hard-hitting journalism, go to Gawker’s take on this whole ordeal. This thing reminds me of Michael Clayton -MAN, that was a good movie.
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This was a Nike sponsored event. I wonder how the flow chart would look like. It would probably be a bunch of arrows (the arrows represent $) from all around the world going towards Oregon. Then, there would be $ arrows pointing from Oregon towards different marketing companies in major cities around the world. Finally, there would be a small arrow going from one of these local marketing reps towards the jrnl gallery/magazine. Ahhh… sweet smell of business (smells like The Man). Loves it.
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Show Program: Part 1; Part 2 – The program has already been disclosed to the public. I think I can post this, but I’m not sure. Anyway, if you’re interested, take a look. Each photographer was gracious enough to include a little commentary with their submission.
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Being True, A Photography Exhibition Celebrating 22 years of American Youth @ the jrnl gallery
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Tim Barber, Angela Boatwright, Kenneth Cappello, Poppy de Villeneuve, Cheryl Dunn, Naomi Harris, Alex Horner, Drew Jarrett, Alain Levitt, Jeaneen Lund, Ari Marcopoulos, Dan Murphy, Jason Nocito, Patrick Odell, Mike Piscitelli, David Ransom,Terry Richardson, Jamel Shabazz, Shadi, Jamel Shabazz, Brent Stewart, Ed Templeton, Tobin Yelland.
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Curated by Emma Reeves and Aaron Rose.
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Opening Reception at the journal Gallery on Thursday, March 27th 2008, 7-10PM
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the journal Gallery
168 North 1st Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
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Adam Stennett is really one of my favorite painters. From seeing his work to speaking with him in person, you can really understand the dedication he puts into his amazing pieces. Do not miss this show.
ADAM STENNETT, OPIUM TEA (PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM), 2008, ACRYLIC ON PAPER, 30X44 inches
Adam Stennett. Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans). 2008. Acrylic on paper, 30 x 44 inches
Adam Stennett
“OFF THE GRID”
http://www.adamstennett.com
April 12 – May 27, 2008
Opening reception for the artist: Saturday April 12, 6-8pm
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
87 Newtown Lane
East Hampton, NY 11937
Tel 631.324.5511
Mon thru Sat: 10am to 5pm & Sun: 12pm to 4pm
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Adam Stennett. This show consists of new works on paper, sculpture and video, all thematically organized around the idea that the way we look at the world determines what we see. This exhibition, entitled Off the Grid, is anchored by a series of still-lifes which re-imagine the possibilities of a stuffy and traditional genre while the video and sculptural works invoke secret government projects, psychedelic drugs, and the culture wars of the 1960s.
The paintings are elegantly composed and beautifully drawn but their outwardly staid appearance is a misdirection. Stennett’s real program is to reinvent the tropes of still-life and retrofit the genre for renewed contemporary relevance. To do so he returned to still-life’s earliest origins and the Netherlandish masters who gave weight and meaning to each piece of fruit, shank of meat, flower, bowl or bottle they painted, thereby making still life the study of character and narrative by other means. Likewise, Stennett presents objects as if they are to be read as evidence. He paints opium poppies, nutmeg kernels, or hallucinogenic morning glories, with teapots, grinders, strainers, bottles of solvent or grain alcohol. These are materials and tools for the extraction of specific euphoric agents that reside within common plants, seeds and tins of spice. These works are not so much still-lifes as painted recipes, precise visual demonstrations by which the observant may be initiated into all sorts of covert activities.
Traditional still-lifes often aimed to calm by suggesting comfort and domestic tranquility but Stennett makes work that undermines calm. This series encourages the imagination to conjure a monster: part vigilante, part amateur pharmacologist, someone knowledgeable and resourceful, but solitary, secretive, at odds with society and given to violence, self-medication and paranoia. In the end the work defies precise interpretation but it is clear that there is an unseen presence at the conceptual center of the exhibition. Collectively these works form a composite portrait of a contemporary anti-hero, as erratic and volatile as the images themselves are composed and contained. That we are never shown a face, only allowed to sense an elusive presence, makes the experience all the more unnerving.
Accompanying the works on paper are video and sculptural works that take a mischievous look at those who have made research into altered consciousness. The sculptural pieces display team jerseys in orderly upright ranks, as if squared off for a competition. The “teams,†MK-Ultra and Millbrook, make reference to groups that did early LSD testing; the first is a classified government program and the second a community founded by Timothy Leary in a wealthy town of upstate New York. Such research has provided fodder for conspiracy theorists while generally revealing more about the ideologies of those who formulated the studies than about altered consciousness itself. The notion that methods inevitably color conclusions subtly informs every piece in the exhibition. Pinned to a wall of Stennett’s studio is an excerpt from the report of another study–it dryly notes how substances that ordinarily provoke nothing more than dizziness can, when aligned with the ideology and expectations of a particular individual, just as well lead to states of profound euphoria. To Stennett this is a metaphor for the peculiar alchemy by which art transforms images and objects into devices for the expansion of consciousness.
Adam Stennett was born in Kotzebue, Alaska in 1972, grew up in Oregon, and now lives in Brooklyn. His work is in numerous public and private collections and has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. He is represented by 31GRAND in New York City. For more information about the artist or this exhibition please contact Glenn Horowitz Bookseller via email: info@GHbookseller.com, or by telephone: 631-324-5511.
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Steve Power’s (ESPO’s) Our Puzzle Paradise
Jay Howell’s Mt. Fuji Goes for a Bike Ride’
David Eggers, Jesse Nathan and Jordan Bass found works that had a sense of humor. There was a line outside, lots of white people.
David Eggers
Still looking at the girls but there are no girls there at all there is only
(this’ll kill ya) inner peace and harmony.
Pay your way.
What’s you favorite flavor? Your mom.
Choose: Hold on/Let Go
There’s this butterfly w/ a Swastika flying above and the two caterpillars are talking and one says, “Don’t worry, it’s just a phase”
Horses With their Heads in Buckets of Cum
They attempt to get away by rolling themselves in floor rugs
I wipe my typhoid infected ass with dollars then my agents spend the money in Miami restaurants. No kidding.
A lot can go wrong in large scale physics experiments
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Saves Lives. I get paid for this:
5 Mustache me and Baldy, Beardos all went to Areosmith and loved it
It’s great down here. I’m really enjoying myself.
Yes, it’s great to be away from my wife.
Poster Making
Arguement: Staged to keep the seats around empty. News Update: It turned into an actual argument.
Here is your portrait. I wish to be paid immediately.
I got ten best friends. I’m gonna make them all fight. I hope Rudy wins.
If you were my boyfriend I’d fatten you up and make you life weights, git you big ass muscles, like Paul McCartney
He was tall and his favorite thing was everything
Andy Warhol’s book of shoes
An Egypt Poem: A pretty lady brings me back to lift even though I’m really gross.I’m really strong – I mean really strong.She lves me for my powers.I’m really ulgy and get sensitive when I think back on when I was good looking… then I get mad and smash stuff. We’ll try to rule the sandy lands together. Some indiana jones looking dude with no super powers beats my ass somehow and my girlfriend falls down a bottomless pit in an underground fortress filled with gold. I’m in a museum now.
Almost Canadian
Tired
This broad was trying to get in but they didn’t let her. She was saying, “Oh, my friend is in there”
This is the first time I have seen a bagpiper in the subway.
Until about a week ago, Eddie Van Halens Guitar was the coolest thing there was. Now something else is cool.
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